Interesting that we have Feynman recalling he cured burnout by playing (at physics in his case, natch) and a complaint that too much playing means people aren’t

Interesting that we have Feynman recalling he cured burnout by playing (at physics in his case, natch) and a complaint that too much playing means people aren’t making cool shit on the top page of HN today. I have a quote up in my office: “I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything.” — Charles Darwin. Contra the comments here, during pandemic I think I’m especially receptive to the idea that getting a cohort of smart committed engineers together and giving them time to build something fun (feynman play?) is pretty special, and probably better for the universe on average than giving them time to ramp up their wetware into village politics mode, a mode that has to be buried pretty deep in our evolutionary history, but probably dominates the ‘time to build cool shit’ mental mode.